the last name of a Spaniard who participated in the seizure of power in Tenochtitlan, Juan Cano; he married doña Isabel de Moteuczoma; they had three children, Pedro Cano, Gonzalo Cano, and doña Isabel de Jesús Cano, the latter became a nun; Gonzalo had a son named don Juan Cano de Moteuczoma, who had a son named don Diego de Moteuczoma, a commander in the Order of Santiago; don Diego married a daughter of Clemente Valdés. (all according to Chimalpahin) Such genealogies link pre-contact with Spanish colonial times.
(central Mexico, seventeenth century)